Organizing Committee Member
Dr.Pedro Morouço
Associate Professor & Principal Investigator
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
Portugal
Biography
Pedro Morouço is Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of Biofabrication at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development – Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. As a very enthusiastic and provoking early-career researcher, he has been invited to collaborate in several national and international projects (e.g. Principal Investigator of “2bio4cartilage – Integrated intervention program for prevention and treatment of cartilage lesions†and the Scientific Director of “print-on-organs: Engineering Bioinks and Processes for Direct Printing on Organsâ€) focusing his research activity, mostly, on products and processes engineering, aiming to bringing the gap between the lab and in vivo applications. Despite his young age, he has co-edited books, authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific works, is member of the scientific committees in various conferences, member of the advisory board and editorial board member in various journals. His skills for thought-provoking talks were demonstrated as Keynote speaker in various conferences and he is aware of the role of science for society awareness. Thus, he developed skills to be able to reach wider audiences (e.g. 2 awards in the National Science Communications Contests and representative of Portugal in an international event), and recently was the winner of The Publishing Method competition promoted by the American Journal Experts.
Research Area
Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine